Lyric the Last Ancient

Lyric the Last Ancient was a villain of the world of Sonic Boom Retold. He is the last of a benevolent race called the Ancients, but went mad with power and turned on his peers to create a world of twisted metal and robots using the power of his people's crystals. Before he could carry out his nefarious deeds, however, he was imprisoned. Centuries later, Lyric was freed and resumed his plans, but was defeated by Sonic the Hedgehog and his crew.

Appearance
Lyric is a giant and monstrous snake-like creature with dark green scales, a light green jaw and a pointy snout with two prominent nostrils. He also has several sharp teeth, unlike real snakes, and eyes with dark green (round) irises and light green sclera.

Lyric wears a sophisticated reddish-brown body armor on the upper section of his body which provides him with a torso. It is spherical in shape with three ring segments on the lower section, a glass sphere around Lyric's head with a silver frame that connects on his back by three thinner frames, two round antennas on his back, a blue button on the chest, and a pair of arms with ball joints and three-fingered hands. He also has a grey rattle-like object on the tip of his tail that resembles his hands.

Powers and abilities
Described as a formidable enemy and a force to be reckoned with, Lyric is the strongest enemy Team Sonic have faced to date. Additionally, he was the first person to dodge Sonic's spin attack, suggesting a high level of fighting skill. However, this feat is somewhat downplayed as he was already familiar with the attack when Sonic first used it on him.

Lyric's body is fused with a sophisticated robotic body armor of steel, which allows him to him carry out his nefarious deeds. Physically, it has enough strength to create shockwaves by hitting the ground. It also contains a computer-like device that grants Lyric limited technopathy; with but a press on the button on his torso, he can take control of anything electronic around him, as long as it is not manually controlled. He lost this ability after Sonic discarded the device behind it. Additionally, Lyric's fists can be dethatched to fire them at his foes, his armor's antennas can generate a protective force-field and shoot electrical bolts, and his helmet can show detailed heads-up displays for operating his robots. Due to being merged with Lyric's body, his armor also drastically increases Lyric's lifespan, allowing him to stay alive for several millennia.

Lyric is able to emit lasers in various ways which are powerful enough to blow a large hole in a stone wall. He can shoots blasts from the palms of his hands, summon pillars of beams from the sky, release energy bombs and beams from his tail tip, and even generate a barrage of lasers in midair. He can also use an ability similar to telekinesis which lets him move boulders at the size of large houses, and he is capable of levitation that lets him move around at speeds rivaling Team Sonic's running speed. It is unverified if any of these skills are due to Lyric's cybernetic armor or natural powers that he already possesses.

Lyric has a genius-level intellect, having proven himself a technological mastermind and a master of robotics. His remarkable skills as an engineer are best evidenced by the armies of robots he has made for himself, the most base of which were so advanced that even Dr. Eggman had a hard time figuring them out, and his own cybernetic armor which he invented to keep himself alive, ironically implying some biological knowledge as well. He also has good deduction skills, able to quickly figure out that it was Sonic who stole his map. Also, as a reptile, he has the natural ability to regenerate his body parts. Also, even without his cybernetics, Lyric has impressive physical strength; with a single swipe of his tail, he could shatter a stone wall.

The Ancients
Some of Lyric's oldest and most hated foes are his own race, the Ancients. When he fell ill from his experiments and had to turn himself into a cyborg, Lyric blamed the Ancients for not warning him and being unable to help him. This set him on his path to destroy the planet. As the Ancients tried to stop him, Lyric turned against his peers and began a war with them, dead-set on annihilating them and everything they held dear. While Lyric managed to destroy most of them, he was trapped by Sonic, allowing the last Ancients to imprison him.

Sonic the Hedgehog
Lyric had a very antagonistic relationship with Sonic the Hedgehog and considered him the one true thorn in his side. Lyric first met Sonic in his facility, where Sonic went back in time after meeting Lyric in the present. Telling Lyric they had "unfinished business", Sonic trapped him for the Ancients. His plans ruined, Lyric developed a deadly grudge at Sonic which would fester for centuries.

After Sonic accidentally released Lyric, Lyric claimed they both had "unfinished business" (though Sonic had not met him at this point) and mocked Sonic as he predicted his attack and left him to rot in his tomb. However, Sonic escaped and Lyric would grew more infuriated with him as he kept disrupting his plans. When he thought he had killed Sonic, Lyric would finally deemed their business finished. When Sonic returned though, Lyric tried to taunt him with his weakness, but failed and was taken down by Team Sonic, with the final blow being dealt by Sonic, leaving his plans ruined once again by the hedgehog.

Dr. Eggman
Dr. Eggman was a temporary ally of Lyric's (although the snake-like villain was more powerful than the doctor) before he became a minor enemy. While 0Eggman feared Lyric and tried to get rid of him, Lyric looked down on the doctor with contempt, considering him a pathetic waste of carbon and even more infuriating than Sonic.

Lyric's release was staged by Eggman to gain his technological secrets. Once they met however, Lyric was just annoyed by Eggman. Rather than killing him though, their common hatred for Sonic convinced Lyric to let Eggman live so he could help him. While the two formed an uneasy "partnership", Lyric never acknowledged Eggman as his equal, but rather as a useless minion. Eventually, Lyric had enough and got rid of Eggman. Though Eggman returned to defeat Lyric, the snake hardly considered him a threat and would ignore him rather than wasting time on him. In the end though, Eggman ensured Lyric's downfall by distracting him in the final battle at a crucial moment for Team Sonic.

Allies

 * Destruction Troops
 * MAIA (formerly)
 * Q-N-C (formerly)
 * Shadow the Hedgehog (formerly)
 * Dr. Eggman (formerly)
 * Metal Sonic (formerly)

Enemies

 * Team Sonic
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (Arch-enemy)
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Sticks the Badger
 * Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Dr. Eggman
 * The Ancients
 * Metal Sonic